octr202 wrote:Many issues on everything that isn't the Fitchburg Line up north this morning. 100 was cancelled out of Rockport (mech failure), and it sounds like two dead sets (50%!) at Bradford as well. Unknown whether one of them was healed, or a replacement set was sent up, but 206 appears to be cancelled, with a mixture of putting some people on the Downeaster (Haverhill), and also having 288 turn at Andover to cover there and Ballardvale. No idea what the poor souls at Bradford and Lawrence are supposed to do...

Further updates to the above, from the T'lerts;

-208 made it out of Haverhill in reasonable order, only to die between Bradford and Lawrence. Alerts now say an extra will "assist" it to Boston.

-201 died of unknown causes at Malden outbound. Alerts now say 289 will be used to shove it to Haverhill (and hopefully back again).

octr202 wrote:Many issues on everything that isn't the Fitchburg Line up north this morning. 100 was cancelled out of Rockport (mech failure), and it sounds like two dead sets (50%!) at Bradford as well. Unknown whether one of them was healed, or a replacement set was sent up, but 206 appears to be cancelled, with a mixture of putting some people on the Downeaster (Haverhill), and also having 288 turn at Andover to cover there and Ballardvale. No idea what the poor souls at Bradford and Lawrence are supposed to do...

Further updates to the above, from the T'lerts;

-208 made it out of Haverhill in reasonable order, only to die between Bradford and Lawrence. Alerts now say an extra will "assist" it to Boston.

-201 died of unknown causes at Malden outbound. Alerts now say 289 will be used to shove it to Haverhill (and hopefully back again).

And in an update to the update, it now sounds like both 208 and 201 are limping along unassisted now.

2017 and its air brake/computer were the issue on 706...messed up the morning rush hour on Franklin Branch. On the Corridor and Mainline, there was a broken rail on Track 2 at Hyde Park and dozens of track circuit issues, and switch problems at TRANSFER Int.

That march ended up a lot bigger than anyone had originally planned. From the Globe website:

Protesters headed to the Boston Women’s March on Boston Common Saturday morning overwhelmed parts of the MBTA subway and commuter rail, which ran extra trains in the morning to offset delays, and then ramped up to weeknight rush-hour service in the afternoon.

"It was equivalent to a Boston College football game and a Red Sox game hitting at the same moment, and it was bigger than anything we see typically on July 4 or New Year’s Eve,”"said MBTA Chief Administrator and Acting General Manager Brian Shortsleeve at an afternoon press conference. "The MBTA was all hands on deck."

Transit officials were planning for 70,000 people to ride rapid transit, commuter rail, and bus lines, Shortsleeve said, but the march far exceeded that number